Email Etiquette Survey: Top 5 Ways to Annoy Your Recipient

According to the new 'MailTime Email Etiquette Survey' conducted by MailTime -- a mobile app that makes email on your smartphone faster, easier, and more conversational -- the top five biggest email etiquette mistakes are:

MAILTIME'S TOP 5 EMAIL ETIQUETTE MISTAKES:

#1: Emails that are "insensitive" in tone (93% disapproval)
#2: Emails that are not personally addressed to you (88% disapproval)
#3: Emails that have numerous replies (87% disapproval)
#4: Emails that have numerous recipients (82% disapproval)
#5: Emails that are too long (81% disapproval)

To conduct this study, MailTime surveyed a sample representative of 1,000 adults. Interestingly, survey data also indicated that excessively long email communications are not only annoying, but also ineffective:

19% of people won't fully read an email longer than 1 paragraph
51% of people won't fully read an email longer than 2 paragraphs
76% of people won't fully read an email longer than 3 paragraphs
84% of people won't fully read an email longer than 4 paragraphs
Only 10% of people will actually read word-for-word an email longer than 7 paragraphs

Source: www.MailTime.com